Monday, April 20, 2009

Joe's Adventures

Joe is an energy lover. He reads books about energy sources and solutions, has every online news story about energy automatically sent to his e-mail, and the thing that seals the deal: he skipped the last Notre Dame football game on Saturday to tour a wind farm and nuclear power plant in 'the middle of nowhere', Illinois:

Against a wind turbine blade, before assembly:
Inside a wind turbine blade, on the ground before assembly:


He said the best part of the nuclear plant was that they got to be part of a nuclear accident simulation.






3 comments:

Chris said...

Sounds like you were in my neck of the woods. You should have stopped by beautiful Champaign-Urbana!

Kelsey said...

Wow, that sounds really interesting! Still, I am surprised he missed football for it though.

The Schaefers said...

woo hoo...a nuclear accident simulation...aka...instead death! lol. That is really awesome that Joe has such passion about his career!